corrective vs placebo

corrective

noun
  • Something that corrects or counteracts something. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct. 

placebo

noun
  • A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. 

  • The vespers sung in the office for the dead. 

How often have the words corrective and placebo occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )